Week 2- Converting Mixed Radicals to Entire Radicals (with an index of 2)

Throughout this week we learned lessons, that built onto the new skills we learned the week before. I thought this one tied into my last weeks post of prime factorization well, because square roots remind me of simplifying of numbers, like used in prime factorization, you break the numbers down to help you solve the equation. One common problem with this process that can cause some confusion is that every mixed radical can be converted into an entire radical, while only some entire radicals can be expressed as a mixed number (depending if they have a factor that is a perfect square). There is an example of how you can convert these mixed radicals into entire ones.

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